peel

• bare
• bark
• cover
• decorticate
• delaminate
• denude
• desquamate
• epicarp
• excorticate
• exfoliate
• exocarp
• expose
• flake
• flay
• hull
• husk
• pare
• peeling
• pellicle
• pull off
• rind
• scale
• shave
• shell
• shuck
• skin
• strip
• tear off
• uncover

• cover
• innards
• insides

• noun
  1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
  4. A stake.
  5. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  6. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  7. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  8. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  9. The blade of an oar.
  10. An equal or match; a draw.
  11. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
  12. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
• verb
  1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  3. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  4. To remove one's clothing.
  5. To move, separate (off or away).
  6. To play a peel shot.
  7. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  8. To plunder; to pillage, rob.

• She carefully peels the orange before eating it.
• He forgot to peel the potatoes for dinner.
• The paint began to peel off the old wall.
• You should peel the banana before giving it to the child.
• The skin on his sunburned shoulders started to peel.

gall

abrade

lamina

uncloak

unclothe

Browse the Thesaurus

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z